Img. ID: 444411
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish workers of the HKP forced labor camp.
Description:
The monument is situated to the south of the two buildings known as the Cheap Houses, in front of the tombstone monument at the site.
The monument consists of a square pyramidal pedestal tiled by granite, upon which stands a granite canopy with four pillars and a segmented roof. The gable of the roof is marked with a Star of David. A round column with a diagonally cut face is located in the center of the canopy. This face bears a depiction of a seven-branched menorah and a Hebrew inscription “Listen, Israel” in quotation marks followed by an ellipsis.
Central parts of each side of the pyramid are recessed and each of the recessed panels bears an inscription. There are identical inscriptions in Hebrew and Yiddish on the northern side, in English on the eastern side, and in Lithuanian on the western one. The donor’s inscription in Hebrew is on the back (southern) side of the monument.
Inscriptions:
On the column in the center, in Hebrew:
"שמע ישראל" ....
Translation: “Listen, Israel”….
Four identical inscriptions on the pedestal:
On the northern side, in Hebrew:
כל דוד ודור
גבורתם
לעד יזכור
On the northern side, in Yiddish:
פון דור צו דור
וויט מען אייביק
געדענקען
אייער גבורה
On the eastern side, in English:
From generation
to generation
your heroism
will be always
remembered
On the western side, in Lithuanian:
Iš kartos
į kartą
bus amžinai
minimas jūsų
didvyriškumas
Donor’s inscription on the southern side, in Hebrew:
נתרם ע"י משפחת
יעקב פרנר תל-אביב
Translation: Donated by the family of / Yaakov Prener, Tel Aviv
Commissioned by
Yeshayahu (Shaya) Epstein.
Funded by Yakov Prener, a former Vilnius Ghetto prisoner, whose relatives were murdered in the HKP camp.